People v. Hale
In 2001, a vehicle with a passenger inside was fired at approximately eight times by another motorist on the expressway. The driver who was fired at positively identified this defendant several times as the shooter. The passenger in the fired-at car was seriously injured, but she, also, identified the defendant as the shooter from a photo array. A Cook County jury found the defendant guilty of two counts of attempted murder, and, for this, consecutive sentences were imposed, as statute makes mandatory. The defendant was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of the passenger and to a consecutive 10-year term for shooting at the driver.